UCSB faculty members can apply for an IHC Faculty Fellowship and Collaborative Awards.
2026-27 IHC PUBLIC EVENTS SERIES
The IHC’s mission is to advance knowledge about human experience in cultural, historical, and social context and to do so through programs that foster human agency, social connectedness, and civic empowerment.
RECORDING AVAILABLE
Watch or listen to Dan Spiegel and Megumi Aihara’s On Fire talk that explores depictions of post-fire landscapes in Italy, Japan, and California and searches for new ways to consider human relationships to the landscape and built environment.
LEARN MORE AND APPLY
Are you a graduate student interested in deepening the reach and impact of your work, or in gaining work experience beyond the academy?
WINTER AWARD WINNERS
Congratulations to the winners of IHC Graduate Collaborative and Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards!
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Watch or listen to Suzanne Jill Levine’s Humanities Decanted on her new book, Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir.
THE BRIGHT FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES
IHC Director Susan Derwin and other public humanists spoke on the Humboldt Podcast Network about innovative humanities programs that are preparing students for careers and for active civic lives.